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First round of border wall negotiations to take place Wednesday (The Washington Times)
Congressional negotiators scheduled the first public round of negotiations on the border wall for Wednesday.
House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey announced the move in a statement Monday, moving quickly to follow up on the agreement last week that ended the monthlong government shutdown. [Read More]
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy (National Review)
Roger Stone is the shiny object. The obstruction charges in his long-anticipated indictment, made public on Friday, are not the matter of consequence for the United States.
Nor is the critical thing the indictment’s implicit confirmation that there was no criminal “collusion” conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
What matters is this: The indictment is just the latest blatant demonstration that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, the Department of Justice, and the FBI have known for many months that there was no such conspiracy. And yet, fully aware that the Obama administration, the Justice Department, and the FBI had assiduously crafted a public narrative that Trump may have been in cahoots with the Russian regime, they have allowed that cloud of suspicion to hover over the presidency — over the Trump administration’s efforts to govern — heedless of the damage to the country. [Read More]
Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Is Another Radically Bad Idea From the Far Left (The Daily Signal)
A radical new tax proposal would hurt the poorest and more vulnerable working-class Americans, and fuel the ever-increasing presence of Washington in our daily lives.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will reportedly propose soon a wealth tax on the richest Americans.
The tax would be a fundamental departure from our current tax code, adding an entirely new tax system on top of the 70,000 pages of existing tax law.
A wealth tax would hurt every American. [Read More]
Appalachia’s approaching energy boom (Washington Examiner)
Economic “game changer” is not a phrase often used in Appalachia and rarely a phrase proclaimed in unison by politicians from both parties at the same time on any subject. Yet since 2016, when Shell Chemical announced it was building a $6 billion ethane cracker plant here, an economic revolution began that is far from reaching its potential.
Mention “cracker plant” in most parts of the country and people think you are making a Nabisco product, but the cracker plant in Beaver County is all about a molecular “cracking,” in which extreme heat “cracks” ethane molecules to form new ones that will eventually produce more than a million metric tons of polyethylene, a type of plastic used in all kinds of common household products. [Read More]
Why teachers from across Virginia are marching in Richmond Monday (WTVR)
Hundreds of teachers and activists from across Commonwealth with take to Richmond on Monday to demand more funding for Virginia schools.
Virginia Educators United is a grassroots campaign made of educators, parents, and community members who said they are fighting to get students the financial resources they need to succeed.
Organizers said some of their demands include smaller class sizes, less testing as well as competitive salaries for teachers. [Read More]
Pelosi invites Trump for State of the Union on Feb. 5 (The Hill)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a letter Monday said President Trumpcould give his annual State of the Union address in the House chamber on Feb. 5, shortly after lawmakers and the White House reached an agreement to end the partial government shutdown.
“When I wrote to you on January 23rd, I stated that we should work together to find a mutually agreeable date when government has reopened to schedule this year’s State of the Union address,” Pelosi wrote in the letter.
“Therefore, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a Joint Session of Congress on February 5, 2019 in the House Chamber.” [Read More]
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